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142 The first snow
The first snow has arrived and with it a lot of chaos. We got sick earlier this month, so most of November was spent on the couch. By the time, I was getting better, snow had arrived–and we found out we’d need to move home and garden. We got sick earlier this month, so most…
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141 Garden goes to sleep
The end of October brought dark, wet, but still very warm days. I had a plan for next year’s garden, so I brought cardboard into the garden to start new beds with. I’d already prepared most of the beds for winter, made most of the new beds. Three beds were left to start. I’ll likely…
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140B I can’t just talk about carrots
I struggled a lot to finish what set out to be a fluffy video about harvesting carrots and planting garlic, so I created the episode that felt more fitting in addition. If you need a break from politics and the dire state of the world, watch the fluffy version instead. Note: there are subtitles on…
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140A Fluffy harvesting and planting
If you need a break from politics, here’s a fluffy video where I plant garlic, harvest carrots, the sun shines, and a dog gets a treat. I struggled a lot to make this video, so there is a non-fluffy version in addition with some real-talk about the current situation. This is not it. This one…
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139 Bad-weather garden tour
A garden tour in bad weather with everything you missed because I lost three weeks worth of footage. I’ll show you the new beds I made, how I’ve turned everything over for winter, and give you an update on what’s still growing in November in North-East Germany. A garden tour doesn’t lend itself well to…
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138 I messed this up.
I messed up. I deleted three weeks worth of footage because I pushed off a task that I should not have. I didn’t have up-to-date backups either, and Murphy’s Law hit with some properly bad timing. “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Murphy and I have a very intimate relationship. Unfortunately, this means…
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137 Preserving the harvest
Fall is harvest season. I busily preserved the harvest from my and other gardens. Despite issues with blight, our tomatoes had produced enough for some canning. The neighbor’s apple trees had left me with goo harvests. In the garden, I harvested the rest of the sunflowers. Despite issues with blight earlier in the season, our…
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136 Catching up indoors
The outside world was darkening. Growing food was moving mostly indoors, the focus otherwise shifted to preservation.I switched to indoor tasks–and I had put off enough of them to fill a book. With too few harvests from the garden to keep us fed, I had signed up for the local produce box again. During the…
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134 I needed a break
After two weeks off to soak up the last summer sunshine, fall fell fast. I couldn’t quite get used to the change in season. It is hard to switch from heat wave to near freezing. There was a week between digging up strawberries on a hot day and looking for mushrooms in my winter jacket.…